{"id":456,"date":"2008-05-11T06:30:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T21:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/11\/demographics-of-early-adoptors\/"},"modified":"2008-05-11T06:30:16","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T21:30:16","slug":"demographics-of-early-adoptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/11\/demographics-of-early-adoptors\/","title":{"rendered":"Demographics of early adoptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State Library of Western Australia has been quietly offering free wireless for the past couple of months, <a href=\"http:\/\/slwa.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/23\/enablenet-free-wifi-at-the-state-library-of-wa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link: ENABLEnet - Free wifi at the State Library of WA\">ENABLEnet &#8211; Free wifi at the State Library of WA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A comment about the demographics using the service stopped me in my tracks. It made me realise that I probably don&#8217;t know the profile of early adopters nearly as well as I presume:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The biggest surprise from the statistics is the language of the devices connecting, a third are English, a third Chinese, 17% Korean, 8% French, 3% German, 3% Japanese and the remaining 3% other European languages. This is due to the large number of international students who use the library to study and that the library is close to a number of backpacker hostels. One of our regular users can even connect from her hostel room.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Library of Western Australia has been quietly offering free wireless for the past couple of months, ENABLEnet &#8211; Free wifi at the State Library of WA. A comment about the demographics using the service stopped me in my tracks. It made me realise that I probably don&#8217;t know the profile of early adopters&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,357,434],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-early-adopters","tag-state-library-of-western-australia","tag-wireless"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-7m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}